Design
UI/UX direction, visual design, and design systems
email-sequences
by rampstackco
"Design and write email campaigns and sequences including onboarding flows, lifecycle campaigns, transactional emails, newsletters, broadcast sends, and launch and announcement emails. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write email copy, plan an email sequence, design an onboarding drip, or set up lifecycle email campaigns. Triggers on email sequence, drip campaign, onboarding email, lifecycle email, welcome email, transactional email, newsletter, email broadcast, launch email, announcement email, nurture sequence, abandoned cart, re-engagement, win-back. Also triggers when planning email automation flows or writing email subject lines for campaigns."
brand-discovery
by rampstackco
"Run upstream brand discovery covering audience research, competitive landscape, category dynamics, problem space, and positioning territory exploration. Use this skill at the very start of a brand or website project when the user needs to understand who they're for, who they compete with, what the audience actually needs, and where the brand could plausibly stand. Triggers on brand discovery, audience research, market research, competitive scan, category research, customer research, who is this for, who are we, positioning research, intake, kickoff. Also triggers when a creative brief is requested but the upstream inputs (audience, competitors, problem space) are not yet clear."
brand-style-guide
by rampstackco
"Build or audit a comprehensive brand style guide that documents the full brand system including story, logo system, color, typography, imagery, voice, applications, and dos/don'ts. Use this skill whenever the user wants to create brand guidelines, document an existing brand, build a brand book, audit an existing style guide for completeness, or produce the artifact that other teams will reference for years. Triggers on style guide, brand guidelines, brand book, brand standards, brand manual, style sheet, brand documentation, brand reference. Also triggers when the brand identity is finished and needs to be documented for handoff to designers, developers, vendors, or future team members."
domain-strategy
by rampstackco
"Plan, manage, and optimize a domain portfolio. Use this skill for DNS architecture decisions, redirect strategies, registrar choice, parking unused domains, multi-site setups, and domain consolidation or split planning. Triggers on DNS, domain, registrar, redirect, parking, subdomain, apex, www vs non-www, multi-site, portfolio, hreflang setup, domain migration. Also triggers when planning a new site that needs domain decisions made before launch."
editorial-qa
by rampstackco
"Pre-publish QA framework for content. Brief adherence, voice consistency, fact accuracy, structure and clarity, AI-content audit, SEO and AEO compliance, internal linking and schema validation, QA at scale via sampling, the QA workflow, and the discipline that distinguishes catch-problems QA from checkbox QA. Triggers on editorial QA, content review, pre-publish review, content audit, content QA process, AI-content audit, hallucination check, content sampling, programmatic QA, voice consistency check, brief adherence check. Also triggers when a content team is shipping sloppy work, when AI-co-authored content is reaching publish unaudited, when a QA process burns reviewers out, or when a programmatic SEO set needs sampling discipline. On a voice consistency check, this skill owns checking a draft against an existing voice system at the publish gate; use brand-voice when the voice system itself needs defining or documenting."
brand-voice
by rampstackco
"Develop or document a complete brand voice and tone system covering voice attributes, tone shifts by context, vocabulary preferences, grammar rules, and copy examples. Use this skill whenever the user wants to define how a brand sounds, write a voice and tone document, audit existing copy for voice consistency, train a team or AI assistant on brand voice, or refine the personality of brand writing. Triggers on brand voice, voice and tone, tone of voice, writing voice, brand personality, copy voice, voice document, voice guidelines, how should we write, voice training, voice audit. Also triggers when the user has copy that 'feels off' and the underlying issue is voice, even if not stated explicitly. On a voice consistency check, this skill owns defining and documenting the voice system; use editorial-qa when a specific draft needs checking against an existing system before it publishes."
ads-performance-analytics
by rampstackco
"How to read paid media dashboards without fooling yourself. Attribution models, platform reporting quirks, multi-platform reconciliation, ROAS vs LTV horizon traps, statistical noise in performance metrics, incrementality testing, and the failure modes that produce expensive lessons. Triggers on read paid media dashboard, attribution analysis, ROAS vs LTV, multi-platform reconciliation, ad incrementality, geo holdout, conversion lift study, ghost bidding, paid media reporting, board-deck paid media metrics, blended CAC, MMM, MTA, last-click attribution. Also triggers when a marketer is about to scale, kill, or rebudget a campaign based on platform metrics, or when reconciling platform reports against warehouse revenue."
ads-creative-development
by rampstackco
"How to produce ad creative that converts at performance scale. Hook patterns, format selection, video pacing, variation systems, sequential testing methodology, fatigue detection, brand-voice alignment without conversion dilution, and platform-specific creative norms. Triggers on ad creative, ad design, hook patterns, ad video pacing, creative testing, ad variations, creative refresh, creative fatigue, refresh ad creative, video ads for Meta, TikTok creative, LinkedIn ad creative, ad asset library. Also triggers when a team is producing creative at scale, planning a creative test cycle, or auditing why creative is not converting."
creative-direction
by rampstackco
"Walk the user through four directional axes (tone register, aesthetic philosophy, audience relationship, sensory ambition) and produce a structured aesthetic brief that downstream content, copy, design, and art-direction skills consume as required input. The aesthetic depth layer, distinct from creative-brief (operational kickoff: scope, audience, deliverables, constraints). Use when a project needs aesthetic coherence across many small decisions and the user has only a vague feeling, or when multiple downstream aesthetic-producing skills need a shared brief. Triggers on creative direction, aesthetic direction, set the aesthetic, define the visual direction, what's the vibe, what's the tone, the four axes. Does NOT fire for a general kickoff brief (use creative-brief), tactical single-piece work, already-documented direction, purely functional output, or locked production-stage work."
content-and-copy
by rampstackco
"Write or edit website copy, blog content, and editorial pieces with attention to voice, structure, and goal. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write an article, draft website copy, edit existing content for clarity or voice, write a blog post, or produce general editorial content. Triggers on write a blog post, draft an article, write copy for, edit this, rewrite this, write content, write a guide, draft a how-to, write web copy. Also triggers when content has been outlined and now needs to be written, or when existing content needs voice or clarity edits."
brand-archetype-system
by rampstackco
"Apply pre-composed aesthetic archetype defaults to jumpstart brand design work covering color, typography, layout, voice, and imagery direction. Use this skill whenever the user wants a starting point for brand visual and verbal direction, references a brand they want to design near (for example 'something like Stripe' or 'editorial like Linear'), needs to converge faster from many directions to one, or wants known-good defaults for a specific industry vertical. Triggers on archetype, design archetype, brand archetype, near to (brand), in the style of, similar aesthetic, design starting point, brand template, vertical-typical, industry-typical. Also triggers when the user has a brief and wants to map it to a known aesthetic family rather than design from first principles."
content-brief-authoring
by rampstackco
"How to author a content brief that actually guides a writer (human or AI) to produce a piece that ranks, converts, or both. Per-piece editorial brief: target keyword and cluster, search intent, audience and JTBD, heading structure, entity coverage for AEO/GEO, internal linking strategy, success criteria. The middle path between thin briefs (a keyword and a deadline) and thick briefs (a 4-page document nobody reads). Triggers on content brief, brief the writer, brief the article, brief authoring, content brief template, brief audit, per-piece brief, editorial brief, target keyword brief, search intent brief. Also triggers when briefing a human writer or an AI agent on a single content piece."
ai-content-collaboration
by rampstackco
"How humans and AI compose in content workflows. Where AI legitimately participates, where humans must own, hybrid workflow patterns, voice ownership preservation, the AI slop problem, disclosure and transparency, team calibration, and the ethics of intellectually honest AI-assisted content production. Triggers on AI content workflow, AI-assisted writing, hybrid content production, AI in editorial, AI slop, AI disclosure, AI usage policy, AI content ethics, voice preservation with AI, team AI calibration. Also triggers when content feels generic despite quality tools, when team AI usage has drifted into inconsistency, or when a regulated or trust-sensitive context requires explicit AI policy."
calculator-design
by rampstackco
"Designing interactive calculators (ROI calculators, pricing estimators, savings projections, mortgage calculators, custom assessments) that deliver real decision-support value while serving as lead magnets and qualified-traffic generators. Honest about vanity-calculator (no real value), lead-trap (hides the answer behind email), and transparent-decision-tool (gives the result and earns the email through tiered value) patterns. Triggers on calculator, ROI calculator, pricing estimator, savings calculator, custom calculator, interactive tool, decision tool, financial calculator. Also triggers when an audience needs a calculation-driven lead magnet, when a vanity calculator is producing leads but no qualified ones, or when a calculator is being scoped for the first time."
creative-brief-selector
by rampstackco
"Produce a creative brief grounded in live reference sites and deliberately distinct from existing demos, for any new brand build. Composes with brand-archetype-system and creative-direction. Use this skill at the start of any brand or microsite build when the result needs to land in a specific aesthetic position and not drift into a default house style. Triggers on creative brief, design brief, build brief, brand direction, where should this brand sit, what should this site look like, reference sites for, archetype for, distinct from our other brands, divergence from prior, not the same as. Also triggers when prior builds have come out as siblings and a systematic divergence approach is needed."
content-strategy
by rampstackco
"Develop a content strategy covering editorial positioning, content pillars, formats, calendar, governance, and topical authority planning. Use this skill whenever the user wants to plan a content program, define content pillars, build an editorial calendar, structure topic clusters, set up content governance, or align content production with broader brand and SEO goals. Triggers on content strategy, content plan, editorial strategy, content pillars, content calendar, editorial calendar, topical authority, topic clusters, content governance, content roadmap, content production. Also triggers when the user is about to start producing content without a strategic plan."
beta-program-management
by rampstackco
"Running closed and open betas that produce real signal. Beta participant selection, structured feedback collection, beta-to-GA decision criteria, and the difference between soft-launch (no structure, no signal), kitchen-sink (everyone in, no actionable feedback), and structured beta (calibrated cohort, intentional feedback loops, clear graduation criteria). Triggers on beta program, alpha test, beta cohort, beta participant, beta feedback, beta to GA decision, design partner, early access program, closed beta, open beta, RC release. Also triggers when a feature is approaching launch and the team needs structured pre-GA validation, when prior betas produced noise rather than signal, or when the team has soft-launched before but wants more structured feedback this time."
evidence-based-reviews
by rampstackco
"Produce honest product reviews and buying guides without fabricated first-hand experience, using disclosed evidence tiers: verified specs, owner-experience synthesis at scale, expert triangulation, and hands-on only when true. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write product reviews or buying guides without hands-on access, set up a review methodology, add evidence disclosure to review content, align reviews with Google's reviews system or FTC affiliate disclosure expectations, or decide when Review and Product schema are honest to use. Triggers on product review, buying guide, best-of list, review methodology, evidence basis, hands-on testing, we tested, affiliate review site, review disclosure, methodology block, original research, reviews system. Also triggers when review content claims testing that did not happen, or when an affiliate site needs a trust mechanism that survives scrutiny."
content-refresh-system
by rampstackco
"Systematic content refresh discipline. Quarterly audits, refresh prioritization (which pieces, when, how deep), refresh-vs-merge-vs-delete decisions, the lifecycle that distinguishes intentional refresh from set-and-forget decay. Builds on the refresh sections of pillar-content-architecture and editorial-qa with a program-level discipline. Triggers on content refresh, content decay, content audit, refresh prioritization, content lifecycle, refresh strategy, traffic decay, ranking drop, content freshness, evergreen content, content maintenance. Also triggers when traffic is eroding silently across an aging content library, when teams cannot decide which pieces to refresh, or when refresh work is happening but the impact is unclear."
cro-optimization
by rampstackco
"Run conversion rate optimization through hypothesis-driven testing including audit, hypothesis generation, test design, statistical analysis, and rollout decisions. Use this skill whenever the user wants to optimize conversion, run A/B tests, audit a funnel, generate test hypotheses, design experiments, or analyze test results. Triggers on conversion optimization, CRO, A/B test, split test, multivariate test, hypothesis, conversion funnel, funnel audit, experiment design, statistical significance, lift, optimization. Also triggers when the user has a conversion problem and isn't sure where to start, or when test results are ambiguous and need interpretation."
chatbot-flow-design
by rampstackco
"Designing conversational flows for website chatbots and AI agents. Intent recognition architecture, branching logic, fallback handling, escalation to human, conversation analytics. Honest about scripted-bot (rigid trees, fail edge cases), hallucinating-bot (LLM without structure, makes things up), and structured-guided-conversation (LLM-powered with intent architecture and fallback discipline) patterns. Distinguishes chatbot DESIGN (this skill) from chatbot IMPLEMENTATION (engineering and platform work). Triggers on chatbot, conversational AI, AI agent, chat widget, intent design, conversational flow, bot escalation, LLM grounding. Also triggers when a chatbot is hallucinating, when a scripted bot is failing edge cases, or when a chatbot is being scoped for the first time."
brand-identity
by rampstackco
"Design or evaluate a brand visual identity system covering logo, color, typography, imagery direction, iconography, and motion principles. Use this skill whenever the user wants to design a logo, build a visual identity, define brand colors, choose brand typography, develop iconography, plan brand imagery, or evaluate an existing identity for cohesion. Triggers on logo design, brand identity, visual identity, brand mark, wordmark, monogram, color palette, brand colors, brand typography, type system, iconography, brand imagery, motion design, brand system, identity system. Also triggers when the user has a brand direction approved and now needs the visual artifacts that express it."
creative-brief
by rampstackco
"Create or refine a creative brief that bridges discovery and execution. Use this skill whenever the user is starting a new project, kicking off a website, beginning a brand build or redesign, briefing a designer or developer or AI agent, or trying to align a team before building. Triggers on creative brief, design brief, brand brief, project kickoff, kicking off, briefing the team, project intake, design direction, brief the designer, brief the dev, where do we start, how do we start, write a brief, project overview, scope this project, align on direction. Also triggers when the user has a vague idea and needs to make it concrete enough to hand off, even if they do not say 'brief' explicitly."
documentation-strategy
by rampstackco
"Design and run a documentation system for a team or product. Use this skill when planning what to document, choosing a documentation tool, organizing existing docs, fixing stale documentation, designing a maintenance cadence, or scoping technical writing work. Triggers on documentation, docs, tech writing, knowledge base, wiki, runbook, README, internal docs, doc audit, doc maintenance, stale docs, where do we document. Also triggers when the team is repeatedly answering the same questions or when onboarding takes too long."